Lotteries in public life : a reader / edited and introduced by Peter Stone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stone, Peter.

Series:

Sortition and Public Policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lotteries.

Chance--Social aspects.

Chance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[England] : Andrews UK, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lotteries have been used to make all kinds of public decisions ever since the days of Ancient Greece. They can contribute to some of our most important values, such as rationality, justice, and democracy. But until recently, there was no theory to make sense of lotteries and what they can do. The past few decades have changed that with a veritable renaissance of studies on lotteries. This book collects fourteen of the most important of these papers, and offers a critical introduction tying t...

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Peter Stone, Introduction; Body Matter; Vilhelm Aubert, Chance in Social Affairs; Dael Wolfle, Chance, or Human Judgment?; Dennis C. Mueller, Robert D. Tollison and Thomas D. Willett, Representative Democracy via Random Selection; Hank Greely, The Equality of Allocation by Lot; George Sher, What Makes a Lottery Fair?; Barbara Goodwin, Justice and the Lottery; Richard G. Mulgan, Lot as a Democratic Device of Selection; Lewis A. Kornhauser and Lawrence G. Sager, Just Lotteries; Torstein Eckhoff, Lotteries in Allocative Situations

Fredrik Engelstad, The Assignment of Political Office by LotWillem K.B. Hofstee, Allocation by Lot: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis; John Broome, Fairness; David Wasserman, Let Them Eat Chances: Probability and Distributive Justice; Sigmund Knag, Let's Toss for It: A Surprising Curb on Political Greed; Back Matter; Also Available

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-44547-6

9786613445476

1-84540-323-1

OCLC:

769344443